by David P. Greisman

There are those who don’t believe Floyd Mayweather Jr. will remain retired for long. There are also those who don’t believe Manny Pacquiao when he says his upcoming third bout with Timothy Bradley will be his last time in the ring.

And that’s why there are plenty who think there will be a second fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao, that each will enjoy the prospect of earning even a fraction of the huge paychecks they pulled in when Mayweather topped Pacquiao in 2015.

HBO’s unofficial ringside scorer, Harold Lederman, is among those who thinks this.

“Floyd’s going to come back. Floyd loves making those big paydays. He makes so much money, it’s unbelievable,” Lederman told BoxingScene.com. “Maybe he wants to buy himself a new Jaguar, a Bugatti or whatever he drives these days. What’s he got now, something like 50 cars? He needs a couple more. A few for the Miami garage.”

Given the extended amount of time it took to get Mayweather and Pacquiao in the ring with each other — never mind the effort involved — the bout wound up being anticlimactic, with Mayweather easily outboxing Pacquiao en route to a clear unanimous decision. Pacquiao said afterward that he had an injury and went on to get it surgically repaired. That’s why Lederman sees a rematch being different.

“Manny wasn’t Manny. He did have a bad shoulder. Maybe legally he can’t talk about it. A lot of people bet on Manny Pacquiao and it wasn’t what you might call a level playing field; Manny came into the fight with a bum shoulder. A lot of people knew it. But Manny wasn’t going to call the fight off, that’s for darn sure,” Lederman said. “When it comes to the rematch, Manny’s going to come in there ready to fight. It’s going to be a different Manny Pacquiao. He will attack him, he’s going to whack him, he’s going to turn, then he’s going to go the other way, do stuff that Floyd Mayweather’s never seen in his whole life.

“He didn’t do that in the first fight. He walked in and he was right in front of Floyd, and Floyd was able to hit him, do the shoulder roll, all the things he wanted to do. We never saw Manny Pacquiao turn Floyd Mayweather. Not once. He didn’t move in to the side, hit him, bang him, go the other way, go this way, go that way. That’s Manny’s game. Manny’s game is turning you. It’s very interesting to watch. I just watched tapes of Manny’s biggest victories, and you see the way he turns his opponents so that when they come back to hit him, he’s not there.

“Manny does that very well. It’s a tough style to fight. And he didn’t do it the first fight because of the fact that his thoughts were on the pain in his shoulder. If a guy is asking for a shot of Novocain, you know he’s hurt. And he was hurting. It’s going to be a different fight.”

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